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An early flight, candles in a stack of pancakes, and a box of Reese’s Pieces.
Mike Wheeler has a plan to make Will’s nineteenth birthday perfect--if he can just stop being an idiot long enough to say the words.
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Will gets surprised, romanced and spoiled all day by a flustered Mike Wheeler.
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22 Mar 2026
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Twenty-two years after leaving, Will travels back to Hawkins to face his past. Only Mike now lives there, too.
Or, ‘He might as well have carved 'Mike' into his thigh. It would have been more honest.’
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22 Mar 2026
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“I don’t want you to die for me,” Will whispered, looking up to meet Mike's eye, then, welling up at the mere thought.
“And I didn’t have to. If I had, I wouldn’t have hesitated. But I didn’t have to. You saved me and yourself, okay?”
“I still hurt you,” Will whimpered, a tear slipping down his cheek, carrying all the weight of his remorse in a single droplet.
“No,” he shook his head, clutching Will’s face in both of his hands, staring at him with so much intensity that he almost wanted to look away. Almost. “Nothing you do could ever hurt me, Will. Nothing,” Mike breathed.
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Following Will's coming out and their plans to infiltrate the Abyss, things go awry as Mike's mind gets taken ahold of by Vecna. In an attempt to escape, Mike finds himself following a tangled web of memories, though not ones belonging to him, and they become more enlightening than he realised was possible.
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or, alternatively, will gets possessed, mike gets vecna'd, and forgotten memories bubble to the surface again, leaving mike with feelings that he suddenly must confront
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20 Mar 2026
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“What?”, Will huffs, shaking his head in disbelief. “You know blue does not only equate sadness, right? It is one of the blatantly obvious meanings, sure, but it can also imply tranquility, loyalty, trust, peace, and—"
Shut up, shut up, shut up, the voice in his head screams by now, but one cannot interrupt Will in the middle of one of his art rants. Impossible. No chance. “And with the vastness of the sky or sea, blue is also often associated with distance, longing, yearning, and— stuff.”
“Distance”, Mike echoes, and only then does Will truly understand what he has just admitted into the air freely, completely unprovoked and voluntarily. “Longing. Yearning.”
Obviously, this is the exact moment Robert Smith decides to sing about the fact that it is Friday, and that he is very much in love.
Five times Mike distracts Will from his art assignments with his stupidly flirtatious ways, and one time Will actually needs his help to complete a coursework.
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19 Mar 2026
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At the age of five, Mike finds out that he lives in quite a peculiar world.
It’s the day before kindergarten and when his parents sit him down in the living room, Mike doesn’t know how to feel: his mother carries worry in her gleaming eyes, while his father looks like he’d rather be anywhere but there.
“Mike. Do you remember when you asked us about the tattoo you’ve seen on Grandma Julie’s wrist?”
Mike nods and a whole new world opens up for him.A series rewrite where Mike and Will fall in love in a world made of soulmates and monsters.
Day 7 of Byler Week 2023: Soulmates
Series
- Part 7 of Byler Week 2023
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18 Mar 2026